Month: July 2021

Hookland 7/3/21 6:51:33

Even the Red Lodges of Hookland seem to have a problem keeping themselves inconspicuous. All seeing-eye and spell-veined glass. I expect the newer secret orders will just advertise themselves with neon signage. – #MattAdams, 1981 https://t.co/oSmfJSrfGJ

Hookland 7/3/21 8:20:46

It‰Ûªs only in the days after the visit to the travelling fair, that what you thought were your memories unravel. First, there is the issue of missing time on the ghost train. Then there‰Ûªs lass you spoke to sitting on the rail outside of the House of Horror that only you remember. https://t.co/bVxGBNpr3C

Hookland 7/3/21 9:33:09

Heathen England persists. Not in books, not in unbroken transmission. It cannot be claimed as a bundle of clearly remembered names and rites for it’s much erased by time’s mist. No, heathen England and its gods continue as a vitality of folklore, as strength in story. – #CLNolan

Hookland 7/3/21 19:06:52

For while my wife may bully me to church on Sundays, I do my praying in the green lanes on the way. I am an old English heathen. Like many a Hooklander, scratch at me and reveal the blood of an animist. – #CLNolan

Hookland 7/3/21 20:35:51

@Scuba_On_Mars You can’t expect an Englishmen who has been no further south than South Carolina to keep track of what happens in Florida. Some places stretch credulity far too much.

Hookland 7/3/21 20:42:55

Most are happy to acknowledge that stories are recreations of moments people have lived. However, most refuse the idea that people themselves are often just recreations of the deepest stories. One finds this most among those who are the least innovative retellings. – #CLNolan

Hookland 7/3/21 20:46:22

@Scuba_On_Mars I’ve no more personal evidence it exists than I do than of St. Martin’s Land. When Hookland starts selling postcards and tea towels, it will achieved the same level of claim to reality through ephemera – a low benchmark indeed.